Description: Designed for skirmish style play, mainly for use with Mordheim from Games Workshop.

Size: 48" x 48", broken down into 12" squares

Materials: Based out of 1/4" masonite, buildings are a range of box set pieces, cardboard, foamcore, wood, and plaster bricks. Base is covered by sand, box card pavestones and plaster.

Method: My first step in this project was to order the masonite board. I bought it in a 4 x 8 piece and had the lumber company cut it into 12" squares. This was a huge time saver, because cutting a 4 x 8 sheet requires help when using a table saw! Even better, was that they were mostly square, which is a necessity for modular game boards.

Gameplay: Using this board is pretty much the same as a regular game of Mordheim. There are several pros and cons to playing on a modular board for this style of game.

Versatility. Everytime I take it apart and rearange it I see a new alley or open spot that is created by the placement and I'm pleasantly surprised. Having about a dozen other small pieces also helps change the look and feel of the whole board.

Durability. The rigid masonite board really makes the buildings hard to damage when handling.

Balance that fig! Uneven bases or multiple layers of things create too many slopey edges and can be a pain during gameplay. Having your buildings attached helps cut down on that, plus terrain peices don't mysteriously float farther from my archers, you know what im talking about.

Cheater! Mordheim is a game of declare before you measure, and playing on a 12 x 12 grid helps you figure out how far away you are for shooting and judging charging range. I personally don't believe that this has much of an impact on the games. Most seasoned players or avid gamers have a pretty good eye for ranges and things like that anyhow.

What I would do next time. Next in my plans is another version of this board, or perhaps even an addition to it. New buildings would be seperate, while the bases would be even more modular, having 6 x 12, and 6 x 6 pieces to arrange. This would help make more possable roadways, rough terrain spots, or even rivers cutting through the city. Some extra blank pieces would have to be made to maximize your possibilities. Also the new board would have to have some height variation. The whole board would be on top of 2 inch styrofoam, allowing me to build above and below the city street, allowing ditches, basements, rivers actually cut into the surface, places for bridges, craters, and what I'm looking forward to most, a ship docked at the edge of the table.